Is An Underactive Thyroid To Blame For Your Mysterious Symptoms?

Great information! I find my endocrinologist visits frustrating and anytime I press for tests for vitamin deficiencies vitamin D selenium omega-3, iodine etc. she refuses. I also ask her about diet especially the elimination of gluten and I always get pushback! very frustrating! We all have to be our own health advocates!

Great content. Why doctors are not focused on the underlying cause and why they are not focused on preventing severe desease is just beyong comprehension. It almost seems criminal.

We need more functional medicine doctors to solve medical problems.

I feel like your talking about me! Very low energy, hair thin, brittle, nearly gone. Dry skin, I seem to be on the verge of crying, weight gain, I’m working on my gut health, D & B vitamins, I feel like I have a big face with not good color. At some point I might have been hit by a truck, nobody’s told me! You both have given me a place to start, thank you!

Endos have 2 tests (TSH and T4) and one solution to thyroid problems (levothyroxine). After all the years in med school, they only have 2 tests and one medicine?? My endo refused to give me a T3, RT3 test. Even an estrogen test was out of the question. I hear this same scenario over and over. Many endocrinologists have failed us and leaves so many suffering.

Dr Hyman you’re driving me nuts, i need to listen to Dr Elizabeth.

Mark should let his guests finish a full paragraph. You can tell the guests are trying to rush through because they know the story might get cut off.

So true it’s hard to find a primary care that will listen it’s so hard to get the help you need and want so desperately

It is important to have your antibodies checked by a regular Dr or Endo for a full picture, however... I have found it is worthless to have a regular Dr check your antibodies because they don't know how to read it or what to do with it...just so totally frustrating!!!!!!!!!!

I think the problem is all of the round up crop dusted on wheat 3 days before they harvest it, not the gluten itself. Also corn, soybean and other beans.

The problem is our healthcare system doesn't work making preventative or even diagnostic care affordable. I'm not sure I will ever have healthcare again job or no job with the way things are looking. Even with a job insurance is too expensive and not worth it.

FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE IS THE MEDICINE OF THE FUTURE. IT SHOULD BE THE MEDICINE OF TODAY. SO MANY GPS THAT ARE RESISTANT. WE NEED URGENT CHANGES IN OUR MEDICAL SYSTEMS AND WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION.

This is making me angry more than anything. I am 78yo, Hypothyroidism, only about 4yrs, still many sings and symptoms. I am a retired R.N and the minute I start questioning breaking down TSH, which he claims is fine, he won't discuss it further.I haven't known what to do for years now, GP's are difficult to find now, work r days per week, never call on a phone, use Portals, that are full of a great deal of misinformation. Health care has gone to he'll, and many elderly are feeling the same way I am, we often are the more complicated patient.

I'll give you fifty to one that at some time in the past they've been put on a medication that has messed up their thyroid regulation and it can't funtion properly anymore. It happened to me, and it took a doctor twenty five years to decide to check my thyroid (at last) to find out why my weight was so high. I knew the cause but doctors weren't listening to me. Twenty five years of being fifty kg overweight is a long time to wait.

I was dealing with acid reflux for the past month. Was prescribed meds, and did my best to avoid taking the omeprazole and I wanted to solve the problem and not mask it. I was getting ahead of it and then it came back, constant saliva filling in my mouth. I gave up and started taking the omeprazole....then my throat started becoming sore and was losing my voice. Started feeling fatigue, dizziness, cannot get enough sleep and have been constipated for close to a week. My doctor found my symptoms hard to believe and suggested my issue was purely due to stress. I walked out of the office annoyed and just felt i wasn't getting any help. He issued a lab test for Thyroid function and vitamin deficiency. Sure enough my TSH was .25 and he called me immediately the next day. Prescribed me 2 medications and has a set me up an appointment with a endocrinologist. Im glad i have been pointed in the right direction and not just waved off "you are just suffering from anxiety". This has been very informative and I am glad I watched this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

I finally decided to find a Naturopath to investigate the "WHY" of symptoms.. Everything now moving in the right direction for optimum health and well-being. I have saved a lot of your podcasts and wonderful knowledge within them. Thank you SO MUCH!!!!👏

I live in a northern community in Canada, have a low income, and no access to functional medicine doctors, or even homeopathic/naturopathic doctors, as the cost of these services is prohibitive. Thank-you for the information and I am going to share it with my nurse-practitioner and see what she thinks.

I had- 2 M.D.’s - that “Fired Me” ! My TSH WAS 4.6 so they insisted I was not Hypothyroid. I had 19out of 20 Main Symptoms. When I Found the right practitioner, it still took 3 years to get back to my “Old Self”. My Psychiatrist FOUND me Hypo. He had to double my dose of Antidepressant to achieve the same relief. This all happened & was Found at age 71! My TSH is now 2.2 ! This is the Best I have been in years- but STILL have several Symptoms. New Dr. does do a full panel! Can I EVER Expect to be rid of Symptoms??

I just want to point out that I noticed that Dr. Hyman was WAY better at not interrupting and when he did want to add to what she was saying, he asked first. Bravo, Dr. Hyman! As always, great information and a brilliant “guest”. ✌🏼 and 🤍.

After developing parathyroid disease two years ago my functional medicine friend helped me get well. Gf, df, sugar low diet, deep root meditation, walking and Fabulous 50's youtube exercises and I'm healthy again!